Relationship Quality and Stability in Couples When One Partner Suffers From Borderline Personality Disorder
Autor: | Evens Villeneuve, Stéphanie Sabourin, Sébastien Bouchard, Yvan Lussier |
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Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Family Conflict Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Poison control Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Oregon Young Adult Borderline Personality Disorder Surveys and Questionnaires mental disorders Injury prevention medicine Humans Personality Education Graduate Young adult Role Playing Students Psychiatry Borderline personality disorder media_common medicine.disease Clinical Psychology Research Design Evidence-Based Practice Practice Guidelines as Topic Family Therapy Female Clinical Competence Curriculum Psychology Psychosocial Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Clinical psychology |
Zdroj: | Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 35:446-455 |
ISSN: | 1752-0606 0194-472X |
Popis: | The main goal of the present study was to examine and compare the psychosocial functioning of 35 couples including a woman diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) to that of a nonclinical control sample of 35 couples. The BPD status of women from the clinical group and the prevalence of personality disorder in their partner were ascertained through the SCID-II. Participants completed self-report measures of couple functioning. A majority of couples in which the woman suffered from BPD (68.7%) evidenced frequent episodes of breakups and reconciliations and, over an 18-month period, nearly 30% of these couples dissolved their relationship. Nearly half of the men involved in a romantic relationship with a woman suffering from BPD met criteria for one personality disorder or more. As compared with nonclinical couples, clinical couples showed lower marital satisfaction, higher attachment insecurity, more demand/withdraw communication problems, and higher levels of violence. |
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